By Jan Elizabeth Brown I want to talk about two kinds of domestic violence advocates. Traditional battered women’s advocates, who have spent decades fighting to bring recognition, services and just laws to victims of intimate partner violence, ar...
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Analysis of the latest British Crime Survey shows male victims of domestic abuse are twice as likely to suffer in silence behind their front doors than female victims and are three times more reluctant to tell the police and four times more reluctant t...
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When we think of abuse or domestic violence, we don’t often hear or think about the husband being the victim. It’s usually the wife who is the reported sufferer. Yet more and more it’s coming out into the light many husbands are victi...
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A woman who killed her ex-partner after drugging him and mutilating his genitals is a "gentle, kind and polite person" who was concerned about the welfare of the children they had together, a court has heard. Jian Chen, 49, is being sentenced for the m...
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Domestic violence can start as early as middle school, new research shows. There's a lot of data about high school dating violence, but not as much about younger kids. However, middle-schoolers are dating according to a team of researchers from the pro...
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A nightclub bouncer who was knifed in the chest by his diminutive wife has called on male victims of domestic violence to come forward. Speaking to the Daily Mail, 36-year old Kieron Bell said : ‘Domestic violence against men is a big problem. B...
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A great article on men's health appeared in the May edition of "Tropical Ear" a monthly news letter from the Townsville Mackay Medicare Local ( Previously the Townsville Division of General Practice) distributed to health service providers across the r...
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When a man was beaten or abused by his wife in 17th and 18th Century England, his community would call upon a traditional intervention. The victim would be ritually humiliated, sometimes by being strapped to a cart and dragged through town, ...
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A court has heard a New South Wales woman deliberately drowned her 17-month-old daughter to get revenge on the child's father. The 27-year-old is accused of drowning the toddler in a Wollongong suburb in July 2009. Her lawyer told a Supreme Court jur...
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See below a letter from the Program Coordinator of the Men’s Alternative Safe House in Calgary, Canada, detailing the failings of Police to protect a father and two children from family violence. MASH*4077Men’s Alternative Safe House*403-24...
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See below for some great news for victims of family violence on provisional partner visas. Please note that although the media release refers only to "women" (for gender-political reasons), the law actually applies to all persons regardless of their ge...
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If you ever doubted claims about how society reacts to domestic violence against men, here's a small selection of how someTwitter users reacted to unprovoked, coercive domestic violence on a much loved character. There are hundreds like this. Makes you...
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When a man was beaten or abused by his wife in 17th and 18th Century England, his community would call upon a traditional intervention. The victim would be ritually humiliated, sometimes by being strapped to a cart and dragged through town, ...
Read more »

A court has heard a New South Wales woman deliberately drowned her 17-month-old daughter to get revenge on the child's father. The 27-year-old is accused of drowning the toddler in a Wollongong suburb in July 2009. Her lawyer told a Supreme Court jur...
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The Domestic violence trends and issues in NSW (Inquiry) held a closed 'Public Forum' (transcript here) with invited stakeholders on 18th June 2012. The One in Three Campaign was not informed that this event was to take place, nor were we inv...
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The One in Three Campaign has lodged its submission to the NSW Legislative Council’s Domestic violence trends and issues in NSW (Inquiry). To summarise the main points in the submission: The existence of male victims and female perpetrators need...
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